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Nigeria's respected former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu returned home on Friday after more than a year in voluntary exile, two months after a legal case accusing him of not declaring assets was dropped.

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Nigeria's new finance minister said on Friday creating jobs and getting affordable credit to smaller companies were among his top priorities in the short time left of the current administration.

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Rival factions of Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) voiced optimism on Wednesday that their divisions could be overcome ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections due by next April.

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The World Bank has said it is committing over $200 million towards the implementation of renewable energy projects in Nigeria towards enhancing access and rural electrification as part of its commitment to the nation's power sector.

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West African nation Nigeria is backing France for a reformation of the United Nations Security Council to include Africa as a permanent member. Sarkozy said, "the UN Security Council must be reformed and Africa must have permanent member representation."

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday vowed to ensure elections due by next April were free and fair and called for the passage of electoral reforms by the end of the year.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has said that an electoral offences tribunal would be established to try electoral crimes in the country.

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Two different women groups have protested against the quizzing of Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima over his marriage to an under-aged Egyptian girl.

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A prominent member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party from Plateau state, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande has said that it would be 'very unfair to the north' for the party to jettison the zoning formula it adopted in 1999, saying that that would be unacceptable to the north.

In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, Ambassador Kwande who is a member of the Party's Board of Trustees said the party should follow through on its agreement on zoning that would see the north producing the presidential candidate in 2011 after which the South East would produce the president of the country in 2015.

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Abuja — The race for who succeeds the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, who resigned on May 13, at the weekend, narrowed down to four key contenders.

The top contenders judging by the array of forces massed behind them are Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, former national secretary of the party, Fidelis Ozichukwu, former national vice chairman of the party (South-east), , Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, former senate president and Major-Gen. Ike Nwachukwu, a former minister of external affairs.

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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Youths hacked to death three Muslim herders in central Nigeria on Saturday and burned their bodies, days after a curfew was lifted in a region where hundreds have died in religious violence this year.

Military officials said the three herders from the Muslim Fulani ethnic group were searching for lost cattle when they were set upon by Christian Berom villagers in Tusung, some 40 km (25 miles) south of the Plateau state capital, Jos.